Quotes from Moby

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

Lord, I want to be up in my heart.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.